you can (and should!) use multiple compressors on the same thing

One of my mentees¹ asked me a couple of days ago:

Hey! Question for ya. My latest client has a SUPER dynamic voice. I had the gain on the mic pretty low so it wouldn’t distort. It sounds fine up until I put the limiter on the master bus, and then all her louder parts are super distorted.

Is this a compression issue, a limiter issue, or a copious amounts …